Down to Santiago, where a telegram waited him from the Emperor of Brazil announcing his election to the Acadèmie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, a great honor about which Agassiz remarks: The distinction unhappily is usually a brevet of infirmity, or at least of old age, and in my case it is to a falling house that the diploma is addressed.

For how canyon prevent from coming to the city, a youth, full of fire and curiosity, and in search of gayety, which he does not know, to be artificial only, and which he thinks he sees floating above every city, and which, unhappily is not to be found in the country!

He declined it on the score of being full, and that by Christmas the subject would be 'passé,' which it cannot be, for the subject, unhappily, is going on, and the problem won't be solved, this long while, at least, of 'Modern Scepticism and Modern Belief.'

And one would expect, therefore, that a progressive and systematically thoughtful government would move heaven and earth to rescue the nation from the carnage which AIDS is taking, and unhappily, that is not the case, although in every other country in southern Africa I have visited, they are moving heaven and earth to turn things around.

At the square end of the horse-shoe, so to speak, stretched the imposing canvas screen, painted in a most elaborate style, by the hand of some artist whose name unhappily has not been preserved for the benefit of posterity.

Thus while Papin was applying the force of vaporized water in mechanical problems, a French woman, whose name unhappily is unknown, had the glory of endowing her sex with the faculty of vaporizing their fluids.

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In this distress he received a remittance of five pounds from London, with which he provided himself a decent coat, and determined to go to London, but unhappily spent his money at a favourite tavern.

—Johnson's life of Savage

A nice, clear contrast between a sentence adverb and a—well, what do we call the other possibility? A verb adverb? Anyway, Johnson is applying the speaker-oriented adverb 'unhappily' to the whole clause 'but spent his money at a favourite tavern'. The topic, Mr Richard Savage, however, probably happily spent his money there. Though it is of course quite possible that because of his poverty, hunger, and want of friends he unhappily spent his money there, given Johnson's delineation of Savage's character this seems unlikely.

Afterthought. Either Johnson has made an error, or this is a rare construction for 'provide': he might have confused the 'with' of 'with five pounds' with that of 'provide someone with something'. Outside a relative clause, what Johnson has written would be ?'He provided himself a decent coat (with the five pounds)'; this ditransitive use of 'provide' is OED sense 6, which has the note 'Also occas. with indirect object without to.'